Item Description: Artist: Seutter Matthias (-1757) Augsburg; issued in: Augsburg; date: ca 1740, 1678. - technic: Copper print; colorit: original colored; condition: Perfect condition; size (in cm): 49,5 x 57; description: Gorgeous genaral view and city map of Erfurt. On the right and left side of the city view an figurative allegorical depiction of the river Gera and agriculture of the area. - vita of the artist: Matthias Seutter (1678- 1757) Augsburg was the son of a goldsmith in Augsburg. In 1697, Seutter began his studies in Nuremberg and subsequently worked in the publishing house of Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg. In 1710, he established his own publishing house and print shop. The Seutter publishing house produced a great number of maps, atlases, and globes. However, very few original maps were printed there, as Augsburg at that time had no university and no connection to the fields of mathematics or the natural sciences. Seutter therefore copied the work of other cartographers, making his own engravings based on their models. Over 500 maps were produced in his studio. Seutters most well-known works are the 1725 "Geographical Atlas or an Accurate Depiction of the Whole World" ("Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der ganzen Welt") with 46 maps, the 1734 "Large Atlas" ("Grosser Atlas") with 131 maps, and the 1744 pocket atlas "Small Atlas" ("Atlas minor") with 64 maps. Matthäus Seutter died in 1757. Seutters son Albrecht Karl, his son-in-law Conrad Tobias Lotter, and his business partner Johann Michael Probst ran the printing business for five more years. Bookseller Inventory # EUD3129_500

Item Description: G. Braun & F. Hogenberg 1572-1619, Cologne, 1572. Kein Einband. Original copper engraving, hand colored in wash, published 1572-78 in volume I of the town book ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ by Braun and Hogenberg. The entire series of the ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ comprised six volumes and was published and printed from 1572 towards 1619. In very good condition. Browning stains are on the map. Bookseller Inventory # 19870

Item Description: Artist: Münster Sebastian (-1552) Basel; issued in: Basle; date: ca 1550, 1489. - technic: Woodcut; colorit: original colored; condition: Smal Tears perfectly restored; size (in cm): 25 x 37,5; description: Bird s eye view of Jerusalem. - vita of the artist: Sebastian Münster (1488 ? 1552) belongs to the very important Comographers of the Renaicance. He issued his first famous Cosmographia in 1544 with 24 double paged maps with German description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French, Italian, English, and Czech. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the notable woodcuts , some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Deutsch, and David Kandel. It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe. His first geographic works were Germania descriptio (1530) and Mappa Europae (1536). In 1540 he published a Latin edition of Ptolemys Geographia with illustrations. The 1550 edition contains cities, portraits, and costumes. These editions, printed in Germany, are the most valued of the Cosmographias. Bookseller Inventory # ASP080_500